After all, a lot of couples don't just roll over and initiate sex.

I get the impression it is always the writer who initiates sex.

It was the last place you would think to initiate sex.

Only she could initiate sex, according to fantasies I had slowly encouraged her to describe.

"We were taught that the man is the one to initiate sex," she said.

Most guys feel as though they're the ones who always initiate sex.

Gently bring up the issue when both of you are relaxed, not after a failed attempt to initiate sex.

And the very first time she had ever initiated sex between them.

Even in 1990, neither traditional nor feminist women are willing to initiate sex or an intimate relationship with a man.

Instead, she initiates sex the next morning, having slept with a boy at camp.